What can be learned about Times Square in New York City by studying these two sources? What other sources would be necessary to learn what it was like to live in this area of the city in the early 1900s? Type your response in the box below.

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1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.

eastern europe, the region of europe that is east of germany, was heavily influenced by the byzantine empire. through byzantine traders, and more importantly, the church, byzantium influenced the art, literature, and architecture of the region